Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1887-11-04


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LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Father McTighe has resigned the prici-
palship Of that Pittsburg school.
The telegraph is the best paper publish
I'd at the Stale Capitol and persons wanting
Harrisburg paper, should read the card OF
the Telegraph in another column.
During the st,rm on the lakes last
week n steamer was sunk and all on board
|drovned. Twenty-Five bodies have been re-
coyed.
The terrible death of Charles klugh
pbould be warning 10 all persons, against
allowing dead trees to stand, particularly
along roads and paths.
Morris Boyd was committed to Jail on
"Wednesday on a charge of horse stealing,
He will have hearing before 8. P. Pain
ter, J. P, at Euclid today.
The storm of last week made large hocks
of wild ducks, geese, swans. etc., seek the
river, and one very large swan was killed In
the river near Freeport.
The President has selected Thursday,
the 24th inst, as Thanksgiving Day, aud the
turkeys will have to that time to get
ready to join the procession.
At Ravenna, .. Wednesday, Charles
Morgan cue OF the men who rescued prls-
cuer. and murdered an officer on the train
some mcnihs ego, was found guilty OF mur-
| der in the FIRST degree.
The first large plate of finished glass
made by the Butler Co., was placed In Dan.
| WulIer's show window last Saturday. 1t is
AZ inches wide and l4s inches high, and
seems to be perfect in every particular.
The large white onions now on sale at
our groceries are raised in the Southern
States. They are very mild-so mild that,
in the words of oae of our experienced men.
. they will not even take the whisky smell
from your breath.
in the side walk of the west side of Main
81 between Penn and w. Pearl there are
trenty-seven places where water will stand,
sixteen places likely to cause the passer-b
to stumble. one absolutely dangerous place
TO stranger by night.
-John Gerstner of Clearfeid twp, made
an information rs. John Menan for aggra'
vated A Il B, and upon hearing before
Esq. Walker last Saturday, Menan , was
held for Court GerstDer claims that
Aenan ran pitchfork into his eye and
ear during dispute at threshlne
some weeks ago.
The cholera scare is inducing some peo-
pie cf this town tn build earth-cioses
There is o use of talking, if the cholera IL
poipp 10 .pread aver this country next SUM-
mer. Is is feared it will, it will find abundant
food in the sinking water-closets, and the
sewerage il the little runs of this town.
Miss NJ. H. Gllkey has just received a
very large stock OF millinery in all the
latest noveIties-hats, pushes. velvets'
corsets, braces, hosiery, toilet articles, trim
miogs. hsir goods, etc ETC., which she re-
specfsnliy invites the ladies Of Butler to In.
spect. See her card in another column.
This warm and dry weather is allowing
Of an imm euse amount OF building and ditch.
ing to be done in Butler, but rain is needed
far the growing grain. The largest open
ditch in town at present. is that of the Watei
Co. from point on Mexican st. to the creek,
part of whlch-that around the Miller cor.
ner-hay,ng been blasted from the solid
rock.
The contractor for the Plate Glass Cos
new houses already has two blocks OF tea
houses each uuier roof, floors laid, chImneys
up. and two coats Of paint on the outside
The foundations for the other two blocks will
be completed this week, and the contractor
expects to have them under roof by this time
next wee...
There are yet some wild turkeys In the
country Some sportsnen in neighbnring
county came upon large flock in the woods
q few days ago, and killed fourteen OF them
Such good fortune is seldom met with, and
their iov knew no bounds. They settled
with the cHner of the turkeys, shortly after
.. IS cents a head or 5000 in all.
The new barn of Clark Tebay of Muddy
creek twp was totally destroyed by lire q
few nights ago. There was no one at home
when the fire was discovered and horse,
some hay, farming implements and buggy
we're destroyed. The property was insured
far $500. The Ere is supposed to have been
the work OF an incendisry.
What gives great promise of being new
and valusb:e addition t. the industries o.
Butler, is the mapuiscture Of the celebrated
Allen Washer here by Shira, Shira d Hays
who have purchased the patent right OF these
machines for this State. and have begun the
business of making and selling them. The
proprietors have testimonials from trustwor-
thy persons OF this and other localities as to
the complete success of the machine as 9
washer OF all kinds of clothes, and invite 0
critical inspection of its work. See cut o
machine and notes regarding its superiority
in another p,ace.
The recent articles on Chilli and Costa
Rica in Harpey's Magazine are folio ged in
the November Number by an illustrated ar
ticle by the same writer. on "The Other End
of the Hemisphere" describing the Argen
tine Republic and Uruguay. He demon
strates the surprising enterprise of these new
warns us that in the market for b-ead-stuff:
and provisions the United States. IL in danger
of being cuts,ripped by these South Ameri
cans. Buenos Ayres, he claims, is increasing
in population faster than Minneapolis, and
the whole c1uutry at nearly twice the speed
OF the Uaited States. He corrects the COM
mon iynora. impression here concerning
that section, which holds to the old ideas o.
drear and uniuhabitahle waste named Pata
zouia, where there is really no Patagonia
but fertile province of Argentine Republic
The new regime, which is obliterating th,
romance of wild Bedouin Gauchos dressed il
costly ostrich robes aud riding with heav,
silver stir-up worth a thousand dollars, il
also introducing with startling rapidity
railroads, banks, theatres, newspapers ant
all the other elements of a growing eiviliza
ton. The history of this speedy transform
ing and its present condition is very enter
tanning subject.
--Aceorliug to the Indiana (Pa.). Demo
crat, Deputy Internal Revenue Collecto
Thompson OF t!ist town has been telling al
immense story of an underground brewery il
this county. though he said nothing about i
10 auybody here, and the story is not beliey
ed BY cur County Detective. His story i
that "whils on q recent trip through Bu.le
county he became suspicious that something
wrong wss going on in a certain coal nine
and as acting agent Of a company desiring B
purchase coal !auds, became acquainted with
the superintendent, vino finally showed hin
through the mines. In the course Of thei
inspection they ran across an elegant lttl
brewery. fitted up with all the latest improve
ments steam engine and everything neces
szry tn carry on brewing. In the course o
their conversation, Thompson, who was vcr.
inquisi;ive and dumb. learned that the brew
cry had been running for five years, and tha
the aversge product was barrel each day
Upon returning from the mine Thompson ex
pressed himself as highly pleased with hi
visit and xrf,h % fna Iavor nf "a heor AM